Named By: | Matheron in 1869 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma |
Location: | Czech Republic, France, Romania and Spain |
Size: | Up to 4 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Multiple individuals |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Iguanodontia | Rhabdodontidae | |
Also known as: | | Oligosaurus adelus | Ornithomerus gracilis | |
Rhabdodon (meaning "fluted tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 70-66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. It is similar in build to a very robust "hypsilophodont" (non-iguanodont ornithopod), though all modern phylogenetic analyses find this ("Hypsilophodontia/tidae") to be an unnatural grouping, and Rhabdodon to be a basal member of Iguanodontia.